Maker: Dolci [attributed]

Year: 1750 c.

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Manufacturing Location: Venice, Italy

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 80

Sources:

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument to See Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2009. p.92. #85.

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2013. p.96. #80.

Public Notes:

"Main tube covered with black coloured sharkskin. Six drawtubes, covered with decorative paper. Ferrules and fittings of objective and eyepiece made of olive wood. (one ring is missing). Maximum length 220 cm, Ø 8 cm. Unsigned, but based on the strong resemblance to LC 79 both instruments are attributable to the Dolci brothers in Venice. Mid-eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 2200

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: paper, sharkskin, wood

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